Bifurcated garment



S. F. STEIN..

BIFURCATED GARM'ENT.

APPLICATION FILED '.IAN. 17? |920. A

1,347,188. Patented July 20,1920.

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SAMUEL F. STEIN, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PEN'NSYITANIA.y

BIFURCATED GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1920.

Application filed January 17, 1920. Serial No. 352,062.

To all 'whom t may concern: 4

Beit known that I, SAMUEL F. STEIN, a citizen of the United States, Vresiding at Villiamsport, county of Lycoming, Fennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bifurcated Garments, of which the following is a specification.

In bifurcated garments, trousers for eX- ample, the portions of the legs thereof contiguous to the crotch are subjected to a good deal of friction by the rubbing of the goods of the outer face of one leg on the goods of the outer face of the other one in consequence of the alternate back and forth motion of the wearers legs in walking. The wear once reaching the point of a hole, even a small one, rapidly extends and results in a condition precluding further wear of the garment, and impossible of satisfactory repair. The object of my invention is to remedy this condition and in a way, at once of a small cost, and without obj ectionable alteration of the construction of the garment either as to appearance or comfort in wear. My invention is of special value, advantage and importance in connection with trousers, and for that reason, I show in the drawings my invention as embodied in a pair of trousers.

In the drawings.

Figure 1 is a side view of a pair of trousers, embodying my invention, the near leg being shown lifted to expose the crotch.

Fig. 2 is a detail view, in section on line 2 2 of Fig. l on an enlarged scale.V

Fig. 3 is a detail plan view on an enlarged scale, and from the inside of the trousers, and showing the appearance when the legs are spread apart.

Fig. l is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3, but with legs in normal position.

I attach tothe piece of fabric or cloth 10 which, usual goes to make up the trousers leg, and on the inside thereof and adjacent the crotch, a piece ll of cloth or fabricof several square inches. Numerous lines of stitches l2 join such supplementary piece to the cloth of the trousers7 leg, which lines of stitches, may, as shown in the drawings, be parallel or of any other desired arrangement and placed, say a quarter of an inch apart. rThese lines of stitching, of course, draw the two plies of material close together, at and adjacent each line, and thus trousers material at and adjacent the lines of stitches is withdrawn from the plane where it can be reached and rubbed, and so friction and wear thereof is prevented. Such wear as takes place falls on the higher surfaces between the lines of stitches, and being thus confined to a narrow or very circumscribed area, the holes that may result are necessarily very small, and if, as I prefer, (but without restricting myself thereto) the inner piece or ply is of the same color and goods as theV trousers7 material, nothing is visible through the small holes any different in appearance than that presented by the iniperforate trousers material. Not only do the lines of stitching have the important function and effect de.- scribed, but as thereby the two plies of cloth are pulled and held close together', any objectionable increase in thickness of material is avoided, and the crotch is a place where any increase to a substantial extent may prove annoying to the wea-rer. Not only do the lines of stitching not impair the looks of the garment, but they may, in fact, be so disposed as to enhance its appearance, but this is of minor importance, since, when the trousers are worn they are not visible.

The supplementary member ll for one leg may be separate from that for the other, or the two can be of one piece of cloth reaching continuously over the crotch seam from one side to the other.

The usual sweat piece or lining may be employed at the crotch, by being sewed to the garment, but I prefer the sweat piece 13 which is readily removable as for washing. Said sweat piece 1S is confined in place a tape 1.4 attached at its ends only to the trousers crotch, and loose therefrom between its ends, the tape entering or engaging holes or openings in the sweat piece, which, as shown may be notched or openended slots l5, respectively at opposite edges of the piece. The sweat piece can thus be easily applied by folding it to slip under the tape and then opened out at its notched edges to engage the tape; and it can be removed by a reverse operation.

I prefer to make the sweat piece of two plies, as shown, stitched together, one of which may be of the same fabric as the trousers, and the other of any lining niaterial, in which case the lining material comes toward the leg of the wearer. Y I claim:

l. A bifurcated garment having at the crotch, and Where the external surface is subjected to frictional Wear and over the area subjected to such Wear, sniall portions of lsuch surface isolated by stitching 'at places in close proXiinityto one another.

2. A bifurcated garment having at the crotch, and lWhere the external surface is subjected Vto frictional Wear and over the area subjected to such Wear7 small portions of such surface isolated by concentric lines of stitching in other. Y

Y3. A biurcated garment having adjacent close proximity to one and material of comparatively *limited area, and joined to the-material of the garment at fre- Vquent intervals Yby stitching at places in Vclose proximity to one another.

i t. A pair of trousers having a sweat piece Hat the crotch, andatape detachably holding tape. Y Y Y SAMUEL F. STEIN.

its crotch, a supplementary piece of cloth 

